The 2026-27 Budget: Re-Envisioning State Education Governance

Mar 18, 2026 - Considering Adding Legislative Appointees to the SBE. The Legislature could consider adding two legislative appointees to the SBE. These appointees could enable greater legislative oversight of the new governance system and ensure the SBE ’s policies are consistent with legislative intent.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5165

The 2025-26 Budget: Educator Workforce

Mar 7, 2025 - Individuals may also obtain additional credentials —such as the Mathematics Instructional Leadership Specialist Credential or Mathematics Instructional Added Authorization —that provide specific training related to improving instruction in math or literacy.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5012

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Proposition 98 and K-12 Education

Nov 10, 2025 - Funding must be prioritized to train teachers in TK through grade 5 that have not passed the liter acy performance assessment or have not received similar training in a preservice program. The training must be provided using one or more of the approved programs, or using a program that meets the same criteria used to develop the approved list of programs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5087

The 2025-26 Budget: Transitional Kindergarten Multilingual Learner Screeners

Feb 26, 2025 - The administration indicated that its intent is for the California Department of Education (CDE) to contract with an external entity that would provide the screener and necessary training to schools free of charge.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4990

The 2025-26 Budget: California State University

Feb 25, 2025 - Though the number of students shifted from self‑ to state‑supported courses is smaller in 2024‑25 compared to 2023‑24 (745 FTE students shifted in summer 2024 compared to 4,705 FTE students shifted the previous summer), the effect is still not adding new students but adding new state costs from shifting students formerly in self‑supported courses into state‑supported ones.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4989

The 2025-26 Budget: Proposition 98 Guarantee and K-12 Spending Plan

Feb 13, 2025 - New Requirements Added in 2024 ‑25 Following a Legal Settlement. In late 2020, the families of several students living in Oakland and Los Angeles filed a lawsuit alleging the state had failed to ensure that schools provided adequate instruction during the pandemic ( Cayla  J.  
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4963

The 2024-25 Budget: Proposition 98 and K-12 Education

Feb 15, 2024 - Assessment Proposed Training Funds for Reading Difficulties Screening Tool Are Premature. We find the proposed training funds to be premature since the approved list of screening tools has not been finalized and funds are being added to the block grant earlier than needed under the traditional claims ‑based process.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4839

Assessing a Shift to Enrollment-Based School Funding

Jan 6, 2026 - Provide One ‑Time Grants for Training and Sharing Best Practices. The state could use one ‑time Proposition  98 funding to contract with one or more LEAs experienced in implementing effective attendance improvement initiatives to provide training across the state.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5100

The 2017-18 Budget: Proposition 98 Education Analysis

Feb 9, 2017 - The state reduced funding for this mandate when adding it to the block grant because it felt, even though the courts upheld th e requirement to be a state reimbursable mandate, that the mandate did not impose new costs on schools.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3549

The 2026-27 Budget: Proposition 98 Guarantee and K-12 Spending Plan

Feb 4, 2026 - The proposal effectively shifts that cost from this year to future budgets —helping address the current budget problem on a one ‑time basis, but adding to the large budget deficits the state is projecting over the next several years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5110